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Obamacare in Gartner’s ‘trough of disillusionment’

September 13, 2016 By Dan Munro 1 Comment

Obamacare in Gartner’s ‘trough of disillusionment’

The consulting firm Gartner has a nifty chart they use for measuring the trajectory of new technologies over the course of their evolution. Many are already familiar with Gartner’s trademark chart – called The Hype Cycle – and it’s become a kind of de-facto standard in many ...

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Filed Under: 3 Tagged With: affordable care act, gartner, Obamacare

Why Ireland has a National Patient Identifier (and we don’t)

August 31, 2016 By Dan Munro 13 Comments

Why Ireland has a National Patient Identifier (and we don’t)

On the one-hand, I’m excited by the CHIME-sponsored National Patient ID Challenge. According to the latest release there are “nearly 370 innovators from 40 countries” that have registered for the Final Innovation Round. The challenge itself is crystal clear: “Ensure 100% accuracy ...

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Filed Under: 3 Tagged With: CHIME, Ireland, National Patient ID Challenge, national patient identifier, patient ID, patient matching

Digital health lessons from BART

April 26, 2016 By Dan Munro 4 Comments

Digital health lessons from BART

“If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree.” –Michael Crichton In most of Europe, mass transit is so affordable and ubiquitous it’s largely assumed. Clearly the economics play an important role because gas is ...

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Filed Under: 3, EHR, EMR, Health care, Healthcare Integration, Healthcare IT Tagged With: bart, bay area transit authority

Blockchain hype comes to healthcare

April 5, 2016 By Dan Munro 18 Comments

Blockchain hype comes to healthcare

As to be expected with any “new” and “breakthrough” technology, headlines abound on the promise and enormous potential of this “disruptive” innovation called blockchain. Outside of healthcare, the accolades are breezy, often breathless – if not breathtaking. A great example is ...

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Filed Under: 3, Health care, healthcare innovation Tagged With: bitcoin, blockchain, cryptocurrency, dan munro, ethereum, mike hearn

Healthcare’s Latest Million Dollar Prize

January 26, 2016 By Dan Munro Leave a Comment

Healthcare’s Latest Million Dollar Prize

Lots of systemic problems in healthcare carried over into the new year. A shortage of doctors, spiraling drug costs, escalating market frictions, cybersecurity, mergers and acquisitions to name a few. With a big election prize in November, it’s shaping up to be a bobby dazzler of ...

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Filed Under: EHR, Healthcare Integration, Healthcare IT, Healthcare Standards, interoperability Tagged With: API, CHIME, FHIR, HeroX Challenge, master patient index, National Patient ID Challenge, ONC

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[#HITsm chat 11.18.16] Celebrate Passing the #HITsm Torch

November 15, 2016

Moderated by Chad Johnson, @OchoTex, HealthStandards.com Editor and Corepoint Health Senior Marketing Manager. November 18th will be the last #HITsm chat under @HealthStandards. Celebrate ‘Passing the #HITsm torch’ to @techguy @HealthcareScene.

Passing the #HITsm torch

November 10, 2016

The first #HITsm tweet chat was held almost six years ago on Jan 10, 2011. Since that time, we have hosted approximately 280 #HITsm chats. While some of you may have participated in that very first chat (only 15 actually participated), I’m proud to say that the chats and the community have continued to grow […]

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Podcasts

‘Hactivist’ Fred Trotter on the Cancer Moonshot, open source data in healthcare, and more

August 3, 2016

Artificial intelligence is a topic that isn’t going away in the health IT and medical community. One reason it’s come as far as it has is thanks to open sourcing, or shared data. Today’s guest, Fred Trotter, has a lot to say about the Vice President’s Cancer Moonshot initiative – which he was recognized for […]

Sue Schade on gender equality, CIO challenges, and value-based healthcare

July 27, 2016

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